Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-12
DEATH IN THE WATER
IS THE ELEMENT WE DRINK DECI-
 MATING THE PEOPLRs
How a Universal Menace to Health
 May Be Disarmed.

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 May Be Disarmed.
 A few years ago the people in 8 certain section of one of the leading cities of the State were prostrated with malignant dis ease and upon investigation it was found that ouly those who used water from a fla nous old we'll were the victims.
 Professor $. A. IattimOre analyst of the New York State Board of Health, upon ana lyzing water from this we'll, found it more deadly than the city sewagel
 The filling up of the old well stopped the ravages of the disease.
 Not long since the writer noticed, while some men were making an excavation for a large building, stratum of dark colored earth running from near the surface to hard pan. There it took another course toward we'll near at hand. The water from this we'll had for years been tainted with the trainings from a receiving vault, the perco- lations of which had discolored the earth! Terriblel
 A similar condition of things exists in every village and city where we'll water is used, and though the Altering which the fluids receive in passing through the earth may give them a clear app arance, yet the poison and disease remains, though the water may look never so clear.
 It is still worse with the farmer, for the | drainage from the barn yard and the slops from the kitchen eventually find their way l into the family well
 The same condition of things exists in our | large cities: whose water supplies are rivers 1 fed by little streams that carry off the filth
 and drainage from houses. This "water" l is eventually drunk by rich and poor alike | with great evil.
 Some cautious people resort to the filter l for purifying this water, but even the filter | does not remove this poison, for water of the l most deadly character may pass through this l filter and become clear, yet the poison dis l guised is there.
 | They who use filters know that they must 1 be renewed at regular periods, for even though they do not take out all the impurity | they soon become foul.
 Now in like manner the human kidneys act as filter for the blood, and if they are filled up with impurities and become foul like the filter, all the blood in the system cou1sing through them becomes bad, for it is now a conceded fact that the kidneys are the chief means whereby the blood is puri- fled. These organs are filled with thousands of hair-like tubes which drain the impurities from the blood, as the sew T pipes drain im- purities from our houses.
 If sewer pipe leaks under the house the sewage escapes into the earth and fills the house with poisonous gas; so if any of the thousand and one little hair-like sewer tubes of the kidneys break down the entire body is affected by this awful poison. It is scientific fact that the kidneys have few nerves of sensation; and consequently disease may exist in these organs for long time and not be suspected by the individual. It is impossible to filter or take the death out of the blood when the least derangement exists in these organs and if the blood is not filtered then the uric acid or kidney poi son. removable only by Warmers safe cure, accumulates in the system and attacks any organ, producing nine out of ten ailments, just as sewer gas and bad drainage produce so many fatal disorders.
 ba EDn tn I there is any marked departure from ordinary health without apparent known cause, and it should be understood by all that the great est peril exists, and is intensified, if there is the least neglect to treat it promptly with that great specific, Warmers safe cure, remedy that has received the highest recog- hilton by scientific men who have thorough ly investigated the character of kidney de engagements.
 They may not tell US that the cause of so many diseases in this organ is the impure water or any other thing, but this poi sonous water with its impurities coursing constantly through these delicate organs un- doubtedly does produce much of the decay and disease which eventually terminate ln the fatal Bright's disease, for this disease, alike among the drinking men, prohibition it's, the tobacco slave, the laborer, the mer- chant and the tramp, works terrible devasta- tion every year.
 It well huOWn InaG tue liver WHICH IS SO easily thrown ''out of gear," as they say, very readily disturbs the action of the kid neys. That organ when deranged immedi- ately announces the fact by sallow skin, con stipated bowels, coated tongue and head aches, but the kidney when diseased strug- gles on for long time, and the fact of it's disease can only be discovered by the aid of the microscope, or by the physician who is skillful enough to trace the most indirect ef- fects in the system to the Arrangement of these organs as the prime cause. The public is learning much on this sub feet, and when it comes to understand that the kidneys are the real health regulators, as they are the real blood purifiers of the system, they will escape an infinite amount of unnecessary suffering, and add length of days and happiness to their lot